As usual Ciderpress or Ooloo you are very wrong.
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Originally Posted by Ciderpress
Children are actually more at risk of serious illness from the flu than covid, which remarkably, barely affects most children. The method of transmission is essentially identical, the average morbidity is roughly the same.
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On the morbidity rate for children when considering flu vs Covid you are wrong.
NOTE: I know nothing I write will make you believe this so take your own statement and throw it through your favorite AI and learn something. If value statistics and studies here -
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals...3.1261046/full
But in case you don't bother I am going to give you a scientific answer because your claim to be an expertise from your "feelings on the matter," mean absolutely nothing.
Journal of Travel Medicine in March 2020 by Ying Liu et al., titled "The reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus, 12 studies showed that the reproductive number (R0) for the initial strains of SARS-CoV-2 was higher than that of the seasonal flu, meaning a single infected person was likely to spread the virus to more people. This rapid spread was a major driver for public health measures like masking."
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Why has there never been a push to make everyone wear shitty loose-fitting masks during flu season? Don't you want to save grandma? A good honest response to this question would sound something like: "You know what? Ciderpress, you're right. We SHOULD have been wearing masks all this time, prior to covid, simply to protect against the flu. We were foolish not to, but going forward I will now don both my covid mask and my flu mask.".
I never get that response though, weirdly.
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On the subject of masks.
Without offending anyone masks are popular in east asia since a person's identity is more closely tied to their role within the group while western individualism & personal liberty is valued over a more collectivist approach to community responsibility.
Either way source control, is crucial for contagious viruses when dealing with a high rate of asymptomatic transmission.